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Skiing Everest is a 2009 American adventure documentary directed by Les Guthman and Mike Marolt; written by Les Guthman, and featuring high-altitude ski mountaineers Mike Marolt, Steve Marolt, John Callahan, Jim Gile, Hans Kammerlander, Chris Davenport, Laura Bakos, Mark Newcomb.
In just 4 hours and 30 minutes, the Slovenian skier descended from the highest point on Earth and began his conquest of the Seven Summits through ski runs. Davo Karnicar's passion for pushing...
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Steve Marolt skiing down the northeast ridge of Everest in 2007. This is a list of ski descents of eight-thousanders (which are the 14 highest peaks in the world that are over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) in elevation). [1]
7 ott 2022 · October 7, 2000: twenty-two years ago, Davo Karnicar made the first ski descent of Everest from the summit, on the Nepalese side. In 4 hours and 30 minutes, the Slovenian skier completed the first of the Seven summits ski descents which he then followed, before losing his life in a logging accident in 2019.
29 ago 2023 · Yuichiro Miura (Japan) made his way to the summit of the world’s highest mountain to break a record that still stands 10 years on. The skier is the oldest person to climb Everest (male). He was 80 years 223 days old when he scaled the mountain on 23 May 2013.
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Interview by Emilio Previtali with 38-year-old Slovenian extreme skier and alpinist Davo Karnicar after his ski down the South Face of Everest.
Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. Using a parachute to slow his descent, he skied down nearly 6,600 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 7,900 m (26,000 ft)), before falling for some 1,300 feet, and stopping just 250 feet from plunging into the bergschrund at the upper reaches of the ...
